Woman with pearls in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Photo (image area is 4.5 x 6.5 inches) printed onto matte cardboard (7 x 11 inches), mounted into a folding cardboard frame/holder (I have cropped most of the folder from the scan).

What I know about it:

Photographer is J. B. Schriever of Scranton, Pennsylvania. (I believe his full name is James Boniface Schriever.)

Comments:

Lately, when I’ve been scanning photos that have a lot of blank border area, I’ve been cropping them down to focus on the images themselves. But I thought this one was interesting, the way a special effect was used to create a printed border around the image, and the way it’s centered artistically towards the top of the page. On top of which, of course, it’s a beautiful, elegant image.